Jim Thome
Jim Thome
James Howard "Jim" Thomeis a retired American baseball player who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1991 to 2012. He played for six different teams, most notably the Cleveland Indians during the 1990s and the Philadelphia Phillies in the early 2000s. A prolific power hitter, Thome hit 612 home runs during his career—the seventh-most all time—along with 2,328 hits, 1,699 runs batted in, and a .276 batting average. He was a member of five All-Star teams and won...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth27 August 1970
CountryUnited States of America
We're getting there. I don't want to say I'm there. It's not where I want it to be, but we're getting close.
It's a very close-knit group. I would say very, very similar (to the Indians), for sure.
He was one of my idols growing up. Those guys every moment and every minute that they talk to you, you just sit back and take it all in.
I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.
Yeah, I think it will be good. Baseball, especially hitting, it's about repetition. It's about getting a lot of at-bats. That's what we'll do.
There are so many. We could sit here all night.
When I leave the game of baseball someday, I want people to recognize that I always put my teams first,